Sadatsugu Toshikaza

Sadatsugu Toshikaza (11 June 1893-4 August 1977) was a Major-General of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

Biography
Sadatsugu Toshikaza was born in Tsu, Mie Prefecture on 11 June 1893, and he graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1915 and from the Army War College in 1923. Toshikaza was a veteran of the Second Sino-Japanese War, fighting at the Battle of Shanghai, and he was promoted to Major-General during World War II. In 1941, he fought in the invasion of the Philippines, and he was stationed in Davao with the IJA 4th Infantry Division. In the fall of 1944, the US Army invaded the Philippines and pushed Toshikaza's division back, and Toshikaza and his superior officer Norimasa Hayashi suffered many defeats at the hands of the Americans. On 17 November 1944, his remaining 8,867 troops were forced to surrender to two US Marine Corps regiments at Dumaguete on Negros island.